Improvement in paper boxes



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JAMES ROSGOOD 8: CO. BOSTON.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH TRAUTMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BOXES.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 183,232, dated October 10, 1876; application filed September 9, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH TRAUTMANN, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Sectional Box, of which the following is a specification:

Figures 1 and 2 are top views of my improved sectional box. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same Fig. 4, a front view thereof without the cover. Fig. 5 is a top view, and Fig. 6 a side view, of a modification thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to a new sectional box, which contains a series of superposed compartments, so arranged that the contents of all may be simultaneously displayed. .The box is particularly useful as a toilet or game box; also for holding stationary, and for other suitable purposes.

The letter A in the drawing represents the body of my improved box. The same is, preferably, of rectangular form, with front a and sides b b of equal height, but with a back, d, of much greater height than said front and sides- To the upper edge of the elevated back at is hinged the cover B, which, in front, has a downwardlyprojecting flap, e, that reaches down to the front a, where it can be I locked by suitable means.

that part of the elevated back d which'projects above the sides b are hinged the corners of boxes D D, which fill the place between the closed lid and the body A, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. When the lid B is swung open, the contents of the hinged boxes D D will be displayed, as in Fig. 2, and on their hinges these boxes D can be swung aside, as in Fig. 1, to display also the contents of the main box. When the lid is closed it will, by

lockingto the front a or directly to the boxes D D, secure these boxes D in the closed po-- sition. The box may be made of wood, pasteboard, or both, or of other suitable material.

Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 show but one tier of boxes D beneath the cover B; but two or more tiers may be interposed, Figs. 5 and 6 showing two tiers of such boxes.

I claim as my invention The box A, made with the elevated back (1, and combined with the cover B, and with the boxes-D D, whose corners are hinged to the ends of the elevated back 01, substantially as herein shown and described.

. RALPH TRAUTMANN.

Witnesses: ERNEST G. WEBB, F. V. BRIEsEN.

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